Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-03-13
SMITHS swEEruEARr's VISIT.
Detective Price Says He Has the
Pistol from which the Bullet
was Fired.
New York SUM-

George Day Condit Smith, who was
shot in the right should in Madison
Square at o'clock Thursday morning,
sat mp in his cot in the New York Hos
pital yesterday. He was very indignant
at Cabman William Hogan's statement
that Hogan had seen him accost lady
who was walking with gentleman in
the Park. Smiths wound gave him
less pain yesterday, and the surgeons
are hopeful that they will soon be able
TO extract the big bullet.
About the first persons who called on
Smith yesterday were Miss Sallie Barnes
and her mother of Paterson, N. ].
Miss Barnes is engaged to be married
to Smith. Soon after Miss Barnes and
her mother left the hospital Mr.. Cyrus
W. Field called upon the patient, who
is his granddaughter.
al found him cheerful" said Mr..
Field afterwards. He was looking
frst-rate. He assured me that he hadn't
the faintest idea why anybody had at
tempted to take his life. asked him
about the anonymous letter. He said
the handwriting was strange to him and
he tore up the letter. His father was a
particular friend of mine and very init
mate friend of General Sherman's.
When James Condit Smith died he left
this son George q house i'll Buffalo and
q farm in New Jersey. / telePraphed
to-day to my brother, Justice Field, of
Washington, the young man s guardian.
that George was improving.
Other visitors to the wounded young
man were his brother, Princeton stu
dent his uncle, Thomas o. Smith, a
mllk-dealer at SIT Sixth avenue, and
several cousins.
Captain Williams's police took on
Thursday the statement of Louis Mont
co, q Young man who was in the Park
at the time of the shooting, but willnot
make it public. Monico said that he
lived in the Florence flats, in upper
Broadway, but the police learned that
he was not known there. Detective
Price consulted with Smith several
times yesterday. Price had in his
pocket last night a pistol which, he
said, was the one from which the bullet
Lad been fired into Smith.
"Ihat's the weapon the assassin
used" said Price. at was deep-laid
plot TO kill young Smith. I've held to
that theory from the first. Two per
sons of importance in this city are in
volved in the conspiracy. There Was
an anonymous letter. 1t was torn up
by Smith, but have in my possession
samples of the handwriting, which
Smith has identified. There's a woman
in the case"
The Paterson dairy Press printed
the following yesterday morning:
Miss Sallie Barnes lives with her
grandmother, Mrs. Dansorth. She is
daughter of the late DIR. Orson Barnes,
and was one of the heirs under the
Will of the late Charles Danforth. Miss
Barnes is very attractive and accom-
plished young lady, and had host Of
admirers. About year ago she was
engaged to be married to Mr.. Walter
Camp, the well-known ex-captain of
the Yale College football team, and
conspicuous in college athletics. This
engagement was broken off some time
ago, and Miss Barnes received the at
tentions of Mr.. Smith. The latter has
a number of acquaintance in this city
and owns o large farm at Troy Mills,
near Parsippany, Morris county. About
three weeks ago he became engaged to
be married to Miss Barnes.
On Sunday last be was in Paterson,
and accompanied Miss Barnes to re-
ligious services in the Church of the
Redeemer. He returned to New York,
and the next that was heard of him
was the receipt of the telegram by
Miss Barnes yesterday that he had
been shot. Miss Barnes was great
ly alarmed at the dispatch, although
it stated that the wound was not con-
sidered dangerous. She has no idea as
to who could have done the shooting,
and does not know that young Smith
had any enemies. She Went to New
York to-day for the purpose of calling
at the hospital and seeing Mr.. Smith.